The silver lining is that Cruz has lost my support and has gone from top to the bottom of the list of rino running Presidential candidates. Scratch his name.
The Republicrats want that voting threshold at 51. Easier to betray the American people.
The US middle class was completely sold out to big business and the United Nation decades ago. This is nothing new. The decline and fall of America marches on, right on schedule. Your great-grandchildren will have no clue what freedom is.
you are wrong....it doesn’t....and the vote was correct.
This is nothing less than malfeasance! Why would one give up the ability to review and amend agreements before they are finalized? And especially allowing only a bare majority for approval, rather than the customary 2/3's? And especially to a tin-horn American-hating tyrant like this one? And we the People can't see the documents (much less than for the 5 days that Cryin' John B promised?
Our reps have joined the Occupier in shredding the Constitution and surrendering our sovereignty.
I'm done with the Repubs, and my rep. in particular. She's nothing but a token female for the House so-called leadership. No integrity, no sense of her obligation and duty to the Constitution. She's forgotten and forsaken the people that put her in office.
Not one thin dime, not red cent!
Free Traitors. These Republicans have sold out to lobbyists and are free traitors.
I guess that settles it - if Cruz is the last man standing, then the only “principled” thing to do is to refuse to vote for him and let Obama II continue the destruction of Freedom of the People. And we call those on the Left stupid.
Traitors list.
From previous posts on this subjects:
You pretty much need "fast track" in order to get any negotiated treaty passed, because you can't have a finished treaty be amended by congress, since that would require that version to be resubmitted back to the treaty partners for approval.
That said, it doesn't remove the Constitutional necessity of having a 2/3 majority to approve them.
Calling them "trade agreements" to get around the 2/3 requirements rather than simply having up/down votes on them as treaties is dishonest. Of course anyone who looks for honesty from our government is a fool who will ultimately be disappointed. Our feral government will do what it wants, when it wants to get what will most quickly enrich the oligarchy.
I think Cruz would have done better to have fought this from the perspective of this undermining of Constitutional authority. That would put him clearly on the side of supporting a 'fast track' provision for treaty negotiations, while at the same time opposing this particular legislation because it undermines the Constitution and the Senate's advice and consent powers/requirements.
In this particular case,what I'm saying is that these "agreements" easily pass the 'duck' test, being as how they walk, quack, and even fly like a duck. The senate should enforce the constitution by admitting the things are ducks, and handling them appropriately.
Simply calling it a "trade agreement" does not make it anything other than a treaty given the ramifications of the document.
This Obama trade deal is a trojan horse.It’s disguised as “free trade” What It really allows is for Obama to flood the USA with an unlimited number of 3rd world immigrants ...
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/20710-obama-gop-trade-scheme-includes-unrestricted-immigration
This Fast track gives Obama power to make treaties that override U.S. laws. It’s the destruction of the republic.It gives obama unlimited dictatorial power to destroy the U.S. Proof here :
http://getliberty.org/oppose-trade-authority-for-obama-on-pacific-trade-deal/
http://www.conservativehq.com/node/20233